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News Release 06-049
Supercomputer Maps One Million Atoms of a Complete Virus in First Simulation of a Life Form
Virtual virus takes 100 days on supercomputer, 35 years on a desktop
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign completed the first all-atom simulation of satellite tobacco mosaic virus.
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group.
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